Do you really think, Cyrus enquired, that we could still overtake them before they reach their strongholds? For we, he added, consider it hard luck that they have run away from us when we were not watching. Now he said this to make them think as highly as possible of his troops.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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